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  • DESOLATION ANGELS
    DESOLATION ANGELS
    JACK KEROUAC
    Tells the story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. ...
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  • MADRID
    MADRID
    LUKE STEGEMANN
    The miraculous story of Madrid--how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre...
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  • THE HAMMER OF GOD
    THE HAMMER OF GOD
    ARTHUR C. CLARKE
    The year is 2110. Humankind is entering a new golden age. But when an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky, he sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately searc...
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  • LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
    LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
    ALEX T SMITH
    Claude discovers a film set on the other side of the fence! When the two lead actors are injured, Claude and Sir Bobblysock are asked to take their places. Can they become movie stars with just the simple addition of a wig? Of course they can! Claude was selected for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the Richard and Judy Book Club. Alex T. Smith is the World Book Day I...
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  • STORYLAND: A NEW MYTHOLOGY OF BRITAIN
    STORYLAND: A NEW MYTHOLOGY OF BRITAIN
    AMY JEFFS
    A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022 A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. It begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footst...
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  • NEVER
    NEVER
    JESSA HASTINGS
    Never . . . is an awfully long time. Growing up, Daphne always knew Peter Pan would come for her. The way he'd come for her mother, and her grandmother Wendy before that. The Darling girls. Their stories are all the same: the forever-young boy at their window after their thirteenth birthday, and the shimmering, magical land behind a star. When Peter doesn't show for Daphne unti...
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  • THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III
    THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, it is argued, brings us closest to the play ...
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  • EDGAR ALLAN POE: GOTHIC TALES
    EDGAR ALLAN POE: GOTHIC TALES
    EDGAR ALLAN POE
    This stunning chapbook--perfect for fans of the mysterious and macabre--comprises three of Edgar Allan Poe's short literary masterpieces: "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Metzengerstein," and "The Masque of the Red Death." This keepsake edition features elegantly designed cardstock covers with flaps and as well as silver and fluorescent ink. ...
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    7,50 €

  • FINDING HER EDGE
    FINDING HER EDGE
    JENNIFER IACOPELLI
    SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIESA swoony romantic novel following an elite ice dancer caught in a love triangle with her old partner and her new one. Perfect for readers of Lynn Painter, Rachel Lippincott, and Jenny Han!"This story set on the ice is sure to ignite dreams and warm hearts." —Laura Taylor Namey, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomor...
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  • SALT
    SALT
    MARK KURLANSKY
    Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired...
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  • ECCE HOMO
    ECCE HOMO
    FREDERICH NIETZSCHE
    I am not a man, I am dynamite Weeks before his final mental breakdown, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo is the result. A summary of his life's work as a philosopher, with chapter headings including 'Why I Am So Wise' and 'Why I Write Such Good Books', it is part mocking self-judgement and part battle cry, and remains one of the most singular, stran...
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  • STRAITS
    STRAITS
    FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022_______________'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator'The ride is thrilling ... a work of serious scholarship' - Sunday Telegraph_______________For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an...
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  • MEDIOCRE
    MEDIOCRE
    IJEOMA OLUO
    From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity -- now with a new preface. 'One of the most admired writers and "internet yellers" around... [Mediocre is] ever more vital... Oluo's meeting the time -- this movement against white supremacy and systems of oppr...
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  • EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PILL (BUT WERE TOO AFRAID TO ASK)
    EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PILL (BUT WERE TOO AFRAID TO ASK)
    KATE MUIR
    'This book finally allows us to think differently about hormones and contraception. Kate is a genius' - DR LOUISE NEWSON 'I cannot recommend this book enough. Kate Muir's writing demystifies, educates and empowers all women to have agency over their own bodies. This book will anger, educate and empower' - JEN BRISTER An eye-opening, no-holds-barred guide to contraception, wri...
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  • A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
    A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
    NEIL OLIVER
    The dramatic story of Scotland - by charismatic television historian, Neil Oliver.Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - tales of failure, submission, thwarted ambition and tragedy - often badly serve this great nation, overshadowing the rich tapestry of her intricate past....
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  • DREAMS OF GODS AND MONSTERS
    DREAMS OF GODS AND MONSTERS
    LAINI TAYLOR
    The 10th anniversary edition of the breathtaking final instalment in Laini Taylor's unmissable Sunday Times bestselling series By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. Common...
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  • ROALD DAHL
    ROALD DAHL
    MATTHEW DENNISON
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    25,00 €

  • THE DUKE OF ALBA
    THE DUKE OF ALBA
    HENRY KAMEN
    An engrossing biography that attempts to fathom the motivations of an infamous sixteenth-century Spanish general Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the third duke of Alba (1507-82), is known to history as "the butcher of Flanders." The general who carried out Philip II's repressive policies in the Netherlands, he was responsible for the massacre of thousands of men, women, and childr...
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  • BETTING ON YOU
    BETTING ON YOU
    LYNN PAINTER
    After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine's Day, Emilie escapes to her grandmother's house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry's. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she's back home in her own bed-and it's Valentine's Day all over again. And the next day? Another nightmare V-Day. Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare th...
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    11,25 €

  • TWISTED
    TWISTED
    EMILY MCINTIRE
    From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Aladdin. She's his diamond in the rough. He's her worst nightmare. Yasmin Karam, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, has never known strife. So, when her beloved father falls ill, she's determined to make his final days his happiest. His last wish? To see her marr...
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  • THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE
    THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE
    RILEY SAGER
    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE Something is lurking beneath the water's surface... Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher has escaped to her family's lake house for peace and quiet. She's been happily losing herself in her thoughts and several bottles of bourbon, until the glamorous couple across the lake catch her attention. They look so ...
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  • THE DIVING-BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
    THE DIVING-BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
    JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY
    One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France. In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French Elle and the father of two young ch...
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  • THE KING'S CITY
    THE KING'S CITY
    DON JORDAN
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    18,75 €

  • BABIES
    BABIES
    ANNE ENRIGHT
    Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night. Everyone, from parents to the mildly curious, can ...
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  • THE INADEQUATE HEIR
    THE INADEQUATE HEIR
    DANIELLE L. JENSEN
    A CRY FOR WAR. OR A CHANCE AT PEACE? . . . DISCOVER THE SPELLBINDING DARK FANTASY TIKTOK SENSATION 'Do not walk to pick up this book. Run' JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT, bestselling author of FROM BLOOD AND ASH 'The perfect combo of high-stakes fantasy and swoonworthy romance' 5***** READER REVIEW 'A badass heroine, a fantastic world, gripping storytelling, with a forbidden romance th...
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  • SIMPLY MORE
    SIMPLY MORE
    CYNTHIA ERIVO
    It is never too late to build the life you're seeking.Cynthia Erivo learned the music to Wicked a decade before she needed it, not knowing that those same lyrics would change her life. Ten years later, she has the chance to perform those songs on a world stage, showing us that there is always time to keep discovering ourselves, that the journey of becoming is not a finite one.I...
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  • TO KILL A KINGDOM
    TO KILL A KINGDOM
    ALEXANDRA CHRISTO
    Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. Hearts are power, and with the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. When a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own, the Sea Queen transforms Lira a human as punishment. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian's heart to the Sea ...
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  • THE MAGICIAN'S LAND
    THE MAGICIAN'S LAND
    LEV GROSSMAN
    Quentin has been cast out of Fillory. Alone and adrift, he returns to Brakebills, the school of magic where it all began. But he can't hide from his past. His new path will take him through a world of grey and uncertain magic, from Antarctica to theenchanted Neitherlands. But all roads lead back to Fillory. The magical barriers are failing and the realm faces destruction. To sa...
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    13,75 €

  • DEAD LIONS
    DEAD LIONS
    MICK HERRON
    *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following ...
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  • THE DA VINCI CODE
    THE DA VINCI CODE
    DAN BROWN
    Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a tra...
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